The deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed and many others critically injured, was streamed live on Facebook by the man accused of carrying it out. It was then quickly shared across social media…

Three minors were charred to death on Wednesday, 20 March, inside a transformer room in Greater Noida, police said. The incident occurred around 4 pm in Sector Phi-3 when the children were playing cricket on a road and their ball had got…

The Railway on Wednesday, 20 March, decided to withdraw tickets carrying photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi which was part of an advertisement campaign by a Union ministry. The “suo motu” decision of the Railway not to use the tickets came a…

A Pakistani student was arrested on Wednesday, 20 March, after stabbing his professor to death for organising a mixed-gender reception at a government college, police said. Associate professor Khalid Hameed was killed on Wednesday on the campus of Sadiq Egerton College in…

After a decade in office, Benjamin Netanyahu’s long tenure as Israel’s prime minister may soon be ending. Whether his Likud Party loses power following Israel’s election on 9 April, or he’s forced to resign the premiership after being indicted on multiple corruption…

Democracy and social progress die without science and fact-based knowledge. Science and facts are the foundational basis for rational and logical disputation and the possibility of reaching some truths. Fake news, on the other hand, is a calculated assault on democratic freedoms.…

The world is reeling in the aftermath of the horrific shootings in Christchurch. The attack has also raised a number of side issues, including the ethics of broadcasting the live stream of the attack, which was later shared on other platforms. As…

Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro on Tuesday, 19 March, moved in to allay concerns over its Rs 10,800-crore bid to take over IT services firm Mindtree, whose management strongly objected to the proposal calling it “value destructive” and “grave threat” to the…